(June 5, 2012 at 2:05 pm)Annik Wrote: I often wonder if that was a more calculated choice than how it looks at first glace. As if it was some sick campaign to send moral plummeting. I could be over-thinking it, of course.
The legal implications of overturning Calley's punishment, as well as the lightness of the sentence, overturns Nuremberg where Japanese and German soldiers were executed for precisely what Calley did, as well as the defense Calley had "I was only following orders".
If there was a calculated choice, it was to destroy what Nuremberg established, regardless of the consequences to returning honorable veterans who most of all needed support.
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